Month: October 2017

Personal philosophy for antibiotics

My personal philosophy about taking antibiotics is never take it unless it’s emergency. I had always been wondering why did different doctors always gave me different kinds of medical treatment when I tell them the exactly same things of how I feel while I’m sick, and I found out, most of the doctor give medication to patient by the general symptom they have. Which mean the antibiotics might be way powerful than you need. Which might be harmful to your body and increase the rate of those disease to develop antibiotics residence. Also, if we always depend on antibiotics, it will decrease the chance of improving our immune system and whit blood cells.

When I’m sick, I will normally drink lots of water, eat non-season foods to lower the stress or work to my digest system, and sleep more than I need to. Unless I have a midterms, or something important to do the next day, then I will take some antibiotics to speed up my healing process.

Diet choices that impact my microbial communities

We know that our gut microbe have a huge effect on our health, and having a larger diversity of microbes communities in our gut going to improve our health. And this is one of the reason I have been trying a diet with a diverse range of foods, most of my dinner will including at least two kinds of vegetables, one animal protein and some fruits. vegetables and fruit provide lot’s of vitamin and fiber, those are the perfect nutrients for some healthy microbes in our gut. Also, I personally don’t like sweets or sugar drinks, which end up to be really helpful to my health, according to research, sugar will lend to some insulin disorder that have an negative effect on our health.

Beside my daily diet, I’m also taking some nutrition pills like vitamin K, because we can’t produce this kind of molecules in our body, but it’s also really important to our healing process for our body damage.

 

Sorces:

Michael A. Conlon. 2015. The Impact of Diet and Lifestyle on Gut Microbiota and Human Health. volume 7 (1) page 1~8.

Rhetorical Precis

Dr. Julie Parsonnet a professor in medicine at Stanford University with a focus on adult infectious disease. She has been researching infections that have a potential to develop chronic diseases like cancer or obesity.  In her research “Risk for gastric cancer in people with CagA positive or CagA negative Helicobacter pylori infection.” (1997), 242 persons were inflect with Helicobacter pylori, and half of them are inject with CagA antibodies and other half are not. The purpose is trying to identify the reason why not all Helicobacter pylori infection will cause gastruc cancer. And focus on CagA phenotype as a factor of this reason. The result show that people with CagA antibodies is more likely to develop into cancer than people who don’t have it. Dr. Parsonnet as a medicine and clinical doctor both focusing on how to cure and reduce the population of cancer, allergy, and obesity that were cause by infectious of microorganism.

Brainstorm a list of behaviors that an individual could engage in that could cause changes to a gut microbial community. 

1. Eating diverse food – Different food types will provided different nutrient and vitamin, and having these kind of resource could increase the diverse range of gut microbes. The more diverse the microbes inside the guts, the better they could maintain our health. Eating something like vegetable and fruits could help us intake more fiver that benefit the growth of microbes in out gut, too.
2. Take probiotics and health supplements – Nowadays, people been really busy on their daily tasks that fewer and fewer people have time to manage their diet or exercise. Consuming probiotics and some health supplements like vitamin K or vitamin C could help our guts maintain some of the basic need on specific nutrient that we can not produce by our own.  Some probiotics also can prevent bad microbes for over growing.
3. Limit intake of antibiotics  – Antibiotics might been the fastest way to cure a infection or fever, but it also have a potential of killing some of the microbes that are benefit to us. In addition, antibiotics also have a potential of helping some bad microbes become stronger once they overcome the damage of antibiotics.
4. Stay Clean – “long-stay care” environment is one of the factor for having a healthy microbes in out guts, doing things like washing hands before and after you eat, and cleaning house once a day to limited the possibility of intake any microbes into our body.

Which HPV strains should be covered in a new treatment?

By reading article Viruses and Human Cancer from Sarid and Gao. I said that out of the 100 types of Human papillomavirus (HPV) that had been identified, due to the limit resource in our society, we can’t provide all kinds of HPVs to everyone. As a healthcare professional, I will recommend the strains covered HPVs 16, 18, 31 and 45 as a priority. Because those are the HPVs that correlated almost 80% of the cervical cancer, also categorize as High-risk cases. If there’s more available resource, I would recommend two more HPVs to be in the cover strains, which is the types 6 and 11. These HPV might not be carcinogenic, but they are the cause of genital warts, which is also a common disease that transmitted between human is the U.S.

If all of those treatment could be in vaccine, it should be administered priority to new born and young people, which is any time before the age of 10-12 which is the age they could possibly have any sexual intercourse. So we could prevented them be exposure to any HPV. Of course, we should double check whether it will cost any side effect on young human immune system before giving the vaccine.

 

 

List as many human non-infectious diseases that you can think of that are influenced by microorganisms.

• Inflammantory Bowel disease
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Asthma
• autoimmune diseases
• Lupus
• Ceilac
• allergen

I know that if a disease that are cost by microorganisms are called pathogens.  Mostly cause by Viruses and Bacteria, sometime even fungi. Some of the diseases are not contagious which mean i can’t be spread from one to another, and we called those the non-inflections diseases.